Some of my favourite images are unexpected goofs. :-)

Thanks. No zoom. This was a fluke (almost a goof). I shot hundreds of
exposures trying to get something that worked, and this was the only one
that came out with the funnel effect. My guess is that there was some motion
of the camera at right angles to the panning. My guess is that I could try
for years and never reproduce the effect. :-)

Jim Kramer - http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/79617130

Lots of motion - the dog, it's ears, tail, and paws (look at the left front
so extended), the splash and ripples. In this one there's a real sense of
motion towards an objective - it knows where it's going and it's going right
there right now. :-)

Douglas MacDonald - http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/79617184

When I look at this I want the canoeist to not be there, since I'm getting a
"stacked subjects" effect that detracts from both of them for me. Good
capture of the peak moment in the leap of the boat.

Wilba 1 - http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/79617206

I shot both of these by holding the camera at belly height, in portrait
format, as I stood on one foot while stepping forward with the other. I
tried lots of variations on freezing the static foot or panning with the
moving foot, on different surfaces on different days. This one is of my
right foot, which was static, and the left foot cropped out. My guess is
that there was some unintended sideways motion (think from up to down in
this 90 degree ACW rotation), that resulted in the funnel effect.

Wilba 2 - http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/79617299

This is one of the few pans on the moving foot that worked. Unsharp Mask
made the shoe snap into focus. Something I learnt from this exercise was the
need to underexpose about a step to avoid blowing out the whites on blurred
subjects.

Ken Nadvornick - http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/79617305

It's the detail that makes this special for me. The composition is very well
thought out. All the elements fit well within the frame and work with each
other - the boom, the signpost, the cat's eyes on the road ... everything
adds something. You can feel the whoosh. I love the skinny post visible just
inside the right border, showing that the background was visible sometime
during the exposure. Is the signpost vertical? It looks to me like it's
tilted a smidge to the right. A winner for me.

Paul Furman - http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/79657023

I understand and sympathise with your comment in other messages about space
in front and behind the subject. Lack of a clear eye makes it harder to
relate to this as a wildlife shot, but as a motion shot it works for me.
Great pinions. I like the mix of blurred and sharp spray.

Mike Benveniste - http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/79672288

At first I thought, "what's in motion?", but then I clued into the
interpretation of someone dealing with the relative motion of the boat and
dock. Strong diagonal axis of the boat, and a nice tight crop.

Graham Fountain - http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/79751139

This has a feeling for me that there was a lot of motion a moment ago, and
now it has pretty much come to a stop. I'm frustrated by the centre of the
action being obscured by number 2, but I love the expressions on the faces
of the other players. Well framed to include them all.

Alan Browne - http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/79753743

I like the subject (float planes are very rare where I come from), and it
looks good from that angle. As a pan, I'd like the background to be more
blurred, and I'd be interested to see a bit more of the wake, but I guess
you didn't have many chances to experiment. :-)  It looks a bit grainy to me
but overall I like it. Definitely a motion shot.

Congratulations to everyone!

I thought they were familiar.  Thanks for the info!  They ARE nice
shoes!
Helen

Damn hard to find nowadays. Used to be able to get blue suede
hushpuppies, but it don't look like they make 'em anymore.